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My Kitchen Garden – Today’s Harvest: Lettuce, Cauliflower and Squash

By Mavis Butterfield on July 2, 2015 · Leave a Comment
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romaine lettuce

We built our garden boxes just over 6 weeks ago and planted our little kitchen garden a week later. Well today I had my first major harvest {if you can call it that}. 6 heads of romaine lettuce, 2 teeny tiny cauliflower and a handful of patty pan squash.

cauliflower

The weather has been crazy hot here in the Pacific Northwest region this summer with temps in the 80-90’s the last few weeks. The cauliflower I planted 5 weeks ago has had it rough… lot’s of greens, but not much in the cauliflower department. cauliflower plant

I finally gave in this morning and pulled our 10 cauliflower plants. The giant cauliflower leaves were taking up space in the garden with hardly anything to show for it but 2 teeny tiny heads. raised garden boxes

Oh well. Some years you win, and other years you lose.

I’m thinking about planting some seed potatoes in the open space. I know the spuds will grow well alongside the cucumber plants, but according planting potatoes next to tomatoes is sort of a no-no as they can be susceptible to the same verticillium fungus infections.

But I’m a risk taker so I think I’m going to go for it and see what happens. Live and learn, right?

patty pan squash

I also harvested a few patty pan squash as well. I like to chop the up the squash and saute them in a little olive oil and garlic and serve the patty pan squash as a side dish. kitchen garden harvest lettuce

It’s not a big harvest, but considering this is our first kitchen garden at this house, I’m pretty excited about it. You have to start somewhere, right?
raised garden boxes douglass firKeep Calm and Garden On,

~Mavis

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